Handbook
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Basic operations
- Advanced operations
- Preparation
- Shooting
- Selecting the shooting mode
- Movie recording setup
- Adjusting the focus
- Detecting faces
- Adjusting the brightness of the image
- The flash
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Setting the image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Magnifies images with higher scale than the optical zoom (ZOOM)
- Selecting the drive mode
- Playback
- Setup of the camera
- Computer
- Cleaning
- Trouble shooting/Others
- Index
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Adjusting the focus
Shooting (Advanced operations)
Fn button t (Autofocus Mode) t Select the desired setting
• Use [Single-shot AF] when the subject is motionless.
• Use [Continuous AF] when the subject is in motion.
Notes
• [Automatic AF] is selected when the exposure mode is set to Intelligent Auto,
Superior Auto or one of the following Scene Selection modes: [Portrait],
[Landscape], [Sunset], [Night Scene], [Night Portrait], or [Hand-held Twilight].
• [Single-shot AF] is selected when the exposure mode is set to Sweep Panorama, 3D
Sweep Panorama or [Macro] in Scene Selection.
• [Continuous AF] is selected when the exposure mode is set to [Sports Action] in
Scene Selection or when the Smile Shutter function is used.
Autofocus Mode
(Single-shot
AF)
The camera focuses and the focus is locked when you press
the shutter button halfway down.
(Automatic AF) The [Autofocus Mode] is switched between Single-shot AF
and Continuous AF according to the movement of the
subject.
When you press and hold the shutter button halfway down, if
the subject is motionless, the focus is locked and if the
subject is in motion, the camera continues to focus.
(Continuous
AF)
The camera continues to focus while the shutter button is
pressed and held halfway down.
• The audio signals will not sound when the subject is in
focus.
• Focus-lock cannot be used.
Shooting techniques